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PzKpfw-VI Ausf. E Tiger I Pics in Weekend Update


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There are some pics on this site http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/nazi_germany/Panzer-VI_Tiger.php under Operational Gallery on which the rear sprocket hub can be seen quite clearl.

When you hit the wrong button on take-off

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these modellers are not amateurs who have trouble modelling a milk bottle, and they don't eyeball the stuff off arbitrary angles, and even if they do, they almost certainly have a stronger education in eyeballing than you.

 

I would say the same, but abysmal windscreen and front fuselage modelling errors in Fw-190 and F-86 after release (discussed ad nauseam and partially fixed later) indicate these guys are not superhumans after all :D. I'm not all that much bothered by it nowadays, but I guess I can see where OP comes from, so a bit of additional research we're doing here won't do any harm.


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I would say the same, but abysmal windscreen and front fuselage modelling errors in Fw-190 and F-86 after release (discussed ad nauseam and partially fixed later) indicate these guys are not superhumans after all :D. I'm not all that much bothered by it nowadays, but I guess I can see where OP comes from, so a bit of additional research we're doing here won't do any harm.
You're right and I'm one of the person who started threads about that. Still Dora has mayor flaws regarding volumes and forms I gave up time ago on trying to point out, even though some details were fixed after all. But, something somebody said back then (may be Sithspawn) is also plain truth, they are professional modellers but they don't live and breath the subject all the time of their lives, so what is clearly flawed and out of shape for me having my model maker eyeball quite developed after working and having in my hands a real 3D model since my childhood, not to mention the picture comparing we do all the time, is not necessarily so easy for them. That being said, IMHO a tank is a quite easier model to eyeball than aircraft, although rounded shaped tanks may be harder to get correctly.

 

Anyway, here with the Tiger, I don't see so mayor flaws. As somebody pointed out it's a mix in early and late features, but still quite correct model just representing a certain date. The last Tiger picture is enlightening (good old red 131 at Bovington, I've stood up right next to it :smartass:), it shows clearly how ED model isn't incorrect after all, at least for the wheel hub.

 

 

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Just a heads-up. In the latest DCS World Weekend Update - 14 October 2016 Post# 53 post the pictures of the Tiger I's are missing their drive wheels in the rear, or at least their hubs are not protruding out far enough. They should be visible from at least the shallow angle shot.

 

 

 

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Also, the road wheels are a bit too larger, or at least too narrowly spaced. The hubs of the inner road wheels should protrude between the outer road wheels; see the above comparison pictures.

 

You do realize the outer road wheels are not fitted in the photo.

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In short: You wouldn't see the rear wheel hub from said angle on the early to mid war variants of the Tiger, but you would see it on the late war variants where the outer roadwheels were eliminated.
Hence after four thread pages we discover DCS model is right since it's using old double wheels despite depicting some later production features. Nice :lol:.

 

 

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Hence after four thread pages we discover DCS model is right since it's using old double wheels despite depicting some later production features. Nice :lol:.

 

 

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Yeah, because it's MID-production Tiger, not early or late...That was noted several times in first page. :smilewink:

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Here's a video of Tiger 131 at Bovington

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131 is an early production series, which can be noted through the wheels and the turret cupola.

 

Because the Tiger rolls past the camera in different shots, it shows the tracks and wheels at a wide range of viewing angles, so you can see at what angles the rear sprocket hub appears and disappears.

 

Note that all the road wheels are mounted on the 131 in the video, which actually makes no difference, because at a shallow enough angel the rear sprocket hub disappears behind the last middle-row road wheel (there are three rows of wheels), and not the last outer-row road wheel, which is more than a half of a wheels diameter further forward.

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Whatever, don't think this thread was useless anyway, I have a Tiger I early model in the stash and all this discussion was very informative :lol: :thumbup: .

 

 

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Yeah, because it's MID-production Tiger, not early or late...That was noted several times in first page. :smilewink:
I noticed your comments, good one :thumbup: . Are you a tank modeller? Not everybody knows about that kind of stuff.

 

 

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They're not missing, they weren't there on the later models which used all steel road wheels.

 

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In short: You wouldn't see the rear wheel hub from said angle on the early to mid war variants of the Tiger, but you would see it on the late war variants where the outer roadwheels were eliminated.

 

Hence after four thread pages we discover DCS model is right since it's using old double wheels despite depicting some later production features. Nice :lol:.

 

 

S!

 

Yeah, because it's MID-production Tiger, not early or late...That was noted several times in first page. :smilewink:

 

The DCS-Tiger is a mid-serice (1944) production, since it has the non-steal road wheels and the smaller turret cupola.

 

Whether the outer row of road wheels are mounted or not makes no difference, because the view to the rear sprocket is blocked by the last middle row road wheel with or without the outer row of road wheels.

When you hit the wrong button on take-off

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I noticed your comments, good one :thumbup: . Are you a tank modeller? Not everybody knows about that kind of stuff.

 

 

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Modeller yes and big time Tiger nut too :) Albeit Tiger 2 is my favourite...

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With all due respect for the fellow pilots opinions and wishes, I think we should keep in mind that developer resources are precious and we probably have more important issues to deal with. From the sim I could not see the difference unless I were grounded just a few meters away from the beast. For me, the tiger could look like a teddy bear if the developers could make an aircraft 2 km's away realistically visible on my PC's screen.

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